There are two ways to look at the women?s soccer team?s 2-1 loss to No. 12 West Virginia in the first round of the NCAA tournament Friday night.
Relentlessness around the net paid off for the men?s hockey team this weekend as the Tigers totaled 98 shots in two games for 4-1 wins against RPI on Friday night and Union on Saturday afternoon.
The atmosphere buzzed with excitement Friday night in Jadwin Gymasium. A murmur was making its way through the crowd of 1,750 watching the men?s basketball team open its season against Central Michigan.
The football team traveled to the Yale Bowl on Saturday for the first time since heroic performances by Jeff Terrell ?07 and Brendan Circle ?08 in 2006 led Princeton to one of the most memorable victories in the school?s recent history.
Rain had fallen all night, and several athletes on the men?s and women?s cross country teams called the course a mudbath.
In a weekend that could determine the Ivy League championship, the women?s volleyball team either needs to leave it all on the court or risk forfeiting the title.The pressure will peak as the Tigers (16-3 overall, 10-1 Ivy League) face Ivy League rivals Brown (12-12, 4-8) on Friday at 7 p.m.
?To build a champion, you have to be a champion yourself.?That was how athletics director Gary Walters ?67 opened last night?s Princeton Varsity Club Lecture, a laid-back, 90-minute talk on the world of sports business off the court, field or diamond titled ?Building a Champion.?Walters was speaking of Larry Lucchino ?67, president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox, who, alongside Wyc Grousbeck ?83, managing partner and CEO of the Boston Celtics, returned to Princeton to discuss the road to success in athletics and give advice to those interested in following similar paths.?We are really proud of our ties to Princeton,? Grousbeck said in an interview following the talk.
This season, there is no prospect of bringing home a bonfire when the football team travels to New Haven, Conn., to take on Yale (5-3 overall, 3-2 Ivy League). But Princeton (3-5, 2-3) is still gearing up for a game rife with historical significance.The Tiger-Bulldog matchup, which will take place Saturday at noon, will be the 131st between the two teams.
When the field hockey team squares off against No. 12 Penn State this Saturday in the opening round of the NCAA tournament, the Tigers will be up against more than just a tough opponent.Between 2001 and 2007, the Tigers were a combined 0-8 against Penn State.
The women?s soccer team spent Tuesday night together in front of the TV nervously awaiting the selections for the NCAA tournament.
The men?s hockey team earned its first shutout of the season Tuesday night thanks to junior goaltender Zane Kalemba?s impressive performance between the pipes, as Princeton defeated Quinnipiac 2-0 at the TD Banknorth Center.?[Kalemba] deserves a ton of credit for this one because we really didn?t play our best game,? head coach Guy Gadowsky said.
The men?s and women?s swimming and diving teams are looking to continue their tradition of success as they vie for their 18th and 14th league titles this season, respectively.
It?s been 956 days since the wrestling team won a dual meet. While this statistic might evoke images of a broken, disheartened cadre, Princeton is poised to blast above the standard set during the last two seasons.
Over the summer, Sports Illustrated named Princeton the 13th-best collegiate sports program in the nation.
Some call them ?Meathead Miracles?; others call them ?Figies.? Whatever their name, it?s hard not to be impressed by the world-record-breaking feats of Ryan Bonfiglio ?01.
Men?s squash coach Bob Callahan ?77 has shaved his mustache. Looking at the men?s and women?s team pictures that line the walls of Jadwin?s squash galleries, the one constant, at least for the 27 years since the men?s 1981-82 season, is Callahan?s easygoing smile and simple black mustache.The pictures are an odd assortment of the past: Color to black-and-white, ranging from the perfectly symmetrical legs crossed, rackets crossed, all black uniforms to gentlemen in blazers and ties lounging around the massive Tiger that guards the southeast entrance to Chancellor Green.
And so it begins.The 109th season of Princeton men?s basketball and the second in the tenure of head coach Sydney Johnson ?97 sits two days away.
Replacing 17.7 points per game would be a hard task for any basketball squad. For Princeton?s women?s basketball team, finding someone to fill the leadership role of departed forward Meagan Cowher ?08 may be even more difficult.For a crash course in how to replace a senior star, the Tigers might look to the Ivy champion women?s soccer team for inspiration.
When the field hockey team lost 5-0 to then No. 2 Maryland, few thought that it would be a blessing in disguise.
The induction of its coach to the
